Elections and Beer Revisited

I'm rethinking my remarks about Nixon in the previous "elections and beer" post. I realize this is all confirmation bias, whatever that means, but we don't worry about such things here at BLECCH!

McGovern seems like a real wet blanket. Hunter Thompson, an ardent supporter, speculated that he had no sense of humor. The same HST spent an hour talking football with Nixon one time, however, and reported that Tricky Dick knew his shit. This sort of thing--knowing your shit about football--makes you pretty beer-worthy, indeed the fact that Nixon was interested in anything at all aside from winning elections makes him more beer-worthy than a good many politicians.

It's true that Nixon's visage seems to symbolize "no fun," i.e. non-beer-worthiness, but McGovern's rigid earnestness might clear out a bar even quicker. So I'm giving 1972 to Nixon.

As for Hubert Humphrey, I have read a bit about him but rarely seen film of him in action. He was reputed to be some sort of liberal 'firebrand' in his early days, but at least judging by Robert Caro's account in his biography of LBJ, he seemed to be a pretty pathetic character by the time he ran for president. So I am giving Nixon the benefit of the doubt in 1968; it's at least plausible that he was more beer-worthy than Humphrey at this point.